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I'm not so sure on this, it's always possible to restore the wp core files from the Wordpress updates page.

Dashboard > Dashboard > updates

But other files, i'm not so sure, Defender doesn't actually store copies of the files at all, it simply takes the filename, filesize & other meta info such as last updated & file creation dates for each file and creates a Hash key from that data.
If a file is changed, then it would produce a completely different hash.

So all Defender is doing, is checking whether the file hashes match, if not, it gives an alert that the file has been changed.

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